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"Emacsen" I can understand by analogy with plural forms like "oxen". "Lispen" is new to me.

At Uni we had a stable of Vaxen.

It gets confusing if you speak a Scandi language where -en is the masculine definite article so Emacsen would mean the Emacs, Lispen = the Lisp etc.

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